Well, it looks a heckuva lot more like a bait-and-tackle and rowboat rental shop – and it also looks like it’s older than 1953 – but, hey, back then some of Sheepshead Bay’s old staples sold you a plate o’ clams for your gullet and a bucket of worms for the fishes’.

So, anyone recognize this place? If not a name, could you give it a location? Or, better yet, anyone know the bloke in the photo?

This is much older than 1953..Probably late 30’s or early 40’s.
At the bottom there is another picture of the BARGE Restaurant.
I remember it well… I would probably guess that it would have been a little further East of where IL Fornetto is now.